All Fresh Business Thinking articles in January 2021 – Page 5
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Opinion
NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards announces shortlist
The NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards has today announced its 2017 shortlist. Now in its fifth year, the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards recognises the hard work and inspiring stories of British entrepreneurs, rather than just their financial success. Shortlisted businesses span 11 categories from Family Business of the Year ...
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On being outsmarted by a child, entrepreneurship, education and government – Oli Barrett spills the beans
Oli Barrett, MBE, host at this year’s’ NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, an entrepreneur success story in his own right, is a communicator extraordinaire, and passionately tries to create an entrepreneurship culture starting at school. This is the second installment of our conversation with him, and he begins with a ...
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Entrepreneurs are problem solvers, says Oli Barrett
Oli Barrett, MBE, has a list of achievements to his name that most of us can only envy – Co-founder of Start-Up Britain, Cospa and as the man behind the Tenner campaign, the school enterprise scheme, he has done more to encourage the development of entrepreneurship culture starting with schools, ...
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OpinionWould be entrepreneurs: “Never die not knowing,” says Jon Allen
“Entrepreneurial thinking is needed for 21st-century skills,” says Jon Allen, MD and co-founder of Enploy, a platform for teaching entrepreneurial mindsets for young people and for employers, and a judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards. This is his take on what it takes to be an entrepreneur, his ...
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“Maybe it is the age of the celebrity entrepreneur,” says Stephen Fear
“Maybe it is the turn of the entrepreneur. We have had celebrity chefs and celebrity footballers now with the likes of Richard Branson, Alan sugar etcetera… we have celebrity entrepreneurs, and that inspires others to be like them,” says Stephen Fear, the man behind the Fear Group, a company with ...
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Paul Lees to entrepreneurs: you need luck, good team work, but you need to be able to make-up your own mind
Photo: Four leaf clover, signifies luck, image by Umberto Salvagnin “There is a lot of luck, you need a team, listen to advice but don’t always follow it.” Paul Lees, founder and one time CEO of Powwownow, the leading free conference call company, and judge at the NatWest Great ...
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People are programmed to say ‘no’, entrepreneurs have to get the ‘yes’ response, says Qasim Majid
“I’ve had more things go wrong than go right!”, says Qasim Majid – Cas, Judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, “but the things that have gone right, they’ve gone big!” “The world is built on the two-letter word – ‘No’! People love to say ‘No’. It is the ...
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“You will work harder than you ever worked before, but being an entrepreneur is amazing”, says Evadney Campbell
“Beware,” says Evadney Campbell, MBE and judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, when you set up a business “You are going to have to work harder than you have ever worked before.” But then I am passionate about what I do, it doesn’t feel like a chore, it ...
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Real entrepreneurship is where we see innovation that harnesses diversity
“Entrepreneurs need to be fearless, but not like a Viking warrior,” says Joel Blake, OBE for Services to Business Support and Enterprise, speaker at TED, and a judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Joel is a believer in diversity – he specialises in helping clients take diversification within ...
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There is nowhere better than the UK to be an entrepreneur, says Simon Biltcliffe
Image: Wikimedia “They are not quite like Mother Theresa of Calcutta” says Simon Biltcliffe, a judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, describing most of the entrepreneurs he knows, “but neither are they anything like the media portrayals of the Philip Greens or Mike Ashleys. Nine out of ...
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Entrepreneurs could do with some justice – Justice Williams
She was just 28, when the letter came. Justice Williams, a judge at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, had spoken in the House of Commons, and when she saw the envelope and realised it was from the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, she assumed it was related to that. ...
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Entrepreneurs: you need tenacity and humility, says top man in venture capital
“When I first became an entrepreneur, I think a lot of my friends felt sorry for me,” says Ian Merricks. “Poor Ian, he can’t get a job, he is having to go self-employed.” Not that they are feeling sorry for him now. Ian is the Managing Partner of White Horse ...
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"Don’t do it unless you are passionate about it", says the CEO at The New Entrepreneurs Foundation
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/ Anthony Easton You need enthusiasm, bundles of it, to set up a business, says Neeta Patel, the CEO of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF). She has this advice to any budding entrepreneur, the same advice she gives to members of the foundation, and that’s: “Don’t do it unless ...
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Opinion
Ego is the enemy of entrepreneurs
"You must be supremely confident in yourself, your ability and your business, but that shouldn’t be to your detriment. Ego is the enemy," say s Jodie Cook, a judge for the Creative Industries Entrepreneur Awards category within the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards. We asked her "What effect are TV ...
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Entrepreneurs are unsung heroes says EJ Packe, so why does the media portray them as crooks?
It’s EJ Packe’s business to work with high growth entrepreneurs, and she knows a thing or two about them – what it takes to be an entrepreneurial success, and how the UK can become more entrepreneurial. But to tell the tale, we need to start with heroes and crooks. EJ ...
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It’s a golden age for female entrepreneurs
“Female founders are finally having their moment” says Jo Dalton. She should know because she has a novel insight into the UK entrepreneur scene. For one thing, she is an entrepreneur, she has founded three companies, for the other thing she is in the headhunting business and works with a ...
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In the age of accelerating technology, we may all need to be a bit more entrepreneurial
“When I was at school being an entrepreneur was just something that Richard Branson did. . . sometimes teachers would say ‘there are entrepreneurs in the world, like Richard Branson, but now let’s talk about getting a job.’ The idea of taking a risk was not something they really drilled ...
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Entrepreneurs do fail and talking about it makes it more acceptable
Image: Chris Potter/Flickr Simon Burton is an entrepreneur in media, events, PR, sport and social media. He is an inspirational public speaker, and a judge at this year’s NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards and yet, he says, it’s his failures that have made him a success. “I often say ...
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